Social Question

What gets you going in a morning?

Are you a “must have a coffee” person, could it be a fried breakfast?
Is it something more? eg: seeing your kids getting ready for school?
Do you have a routine that can’t be broken?
Does it all depend on what you did the night before?
Does it all depend on what you have planned for the day?

I’m a major night owl, to the point where I now sleep during the day and wake up in the late afternoon most of the time. No matter what time of day it is when I awake, my routine is the same: bathroom, cigarette, soda (SpriteZero, so no caffeine). Definitely no food. If I eat, I’m going back to sleep for sure. On a normal day, it can take me up to two hours to feel fully awake, time I usually spend catching up with Fluther work and playing games on the computer.

The only time I can just snap to it is if I’m about to be late for something really important. Then I can run around like a madwoman to do what needs doing, but then I just crash and burn later in the day.

I’ve been awake all night. I need to get up now – I feel zombified. Some cereal will keep me ticking over. I’ll probably come home and hit the hay for an hour later. Normally, a shower, breakfast and a top of the morning to ya does it!

I’m with @augustlan in that I’m a night owl. Nothing REALLY gets me going in the morning. I’d much rather go to sleep when the sun rises and wake up early in the afternoon. I’ve always been that way, my parents have told me stories about what a terror I was at night as an infant & toddler. Then, as a child, I actually REMEMBER being a pain in the butt at night. I need loads of caffeine to function in the actual morning, even if I’ve had a full nights rest.

If I’m lucky, a naked woman laying next to me! :-/ that’d get me going…Failing that it’s usually two or three strong mugs of coffee, besides that I have to feed the moggies otherwise they start tearing the stairs carpet to bits………

Double espresso, cigarette and a handful of prescription pills have been my routine for the last 8 months. Now my real motivator is the happy face of my niece; every day is a joful adventure for her. Makes me feel about 25 years younger, bless her.

Second cup of coffee and I’m ready for fluther: the jellies who are up late talk to me – and I join their midnight party – while here it’s only 6 a.m. – sometimes the talk will be about all kinds of sexual and explicit topics – night chat – I laugh and sip my coffee – brushing the sleep sand from the corners of my eyes – barely able to keep up with the chatter. Especially in the chat room. Here I can magnify the page and take my time.

If I don’t get up in time to fill the cat bowls, it will be constant meowing that gets me going. It’s quite annoying. If the kings and queens are fed the only thing that can wake me up is time. I hate the morning.

Spinning class. I wake up at 5:00 to make it to the 5:15 class and I am always pretty sure I will pass out before I get behind the wheel. Once I get to class and get moving I am wide awake and ready to face the day.

Unfortunately….nothing much. I have to force myself out of bed every day. Unless maybe thee’s something exciting planned, like shopping, or preparing the house for a BBQ with family or something, or going on vacation, something like that.

But this is just a bad pattern that i’ve got myself into since i started working from home – now i hardly ever HAVE to get up early. Once i’m in the habit though, it’s fine, and i don’t need anything to get me going.

For the record, Spinning at 5:15 is a necessity more than anything else. I just don’t have anywhere else to fit it in my schedule. I have to work out and if I don’t I am miserable. The truth is I am not a morning person or a night person, I have a couple of good hours in the middle of the day.